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By STELLA MARTANY IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Officials with one of the armed Kurdish Iranian dissident groups based in northern Iraq told The Associated Press that they are not planning an imminent cross-border attack on Iran but would join a ground invasion if the U.S. were to launch one. Related Articles China’s 10-passenger electric aircraft, the Matrix, hints at how big flying taxis can be Hungary detains 7 Ukrainians and seizes $80 million cash shipment. Kyiv calls move ‘taking hostages’ Pakistan and Afghanistan claim killing dozens of the other side’s troops in relentless fighting Pakistani Shiites rally to denounce US-Israeli strikes on Iran as US Embassy issues a security alert Sri Lanka takes custody of an Iranian vessel off its coast after US sank an Iranian warship The comments appeared to be aimed at reassuring Iraqi Kurdish officials, who have said they do not want attacks to be launched against Iran from their territory, fearing that they will be further dragged into...

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and SARAH BRUMFIELD and GEORGE FREY, Associated Press TORREY, Utah (AP) — A man who authorities accuse of killing a southern Utah woman, stealing her vehicle and driving it to a nearby trailhead and killing two women who were hiking together before fleeing in one of their vehicles has been arrested, officials announced Thursday. The series of events happened late Wednesday afternoon. Authorities were alerted to the killings by the husbands of the hikers who went to the trail near Capitol Reef National Park looking for them, said Lt. Cameron Roden of the Utah Highway Patrol. The husbands told authorities one vehicle was missing from the trailhead and they didn’t know who owned the other. Roden said authorities discovered the first woman who was killed after identifying the owner of the vehicle. There is no indication the suspect had any connection to the victims, he said. Investigators were still looking into when the suspect arrived in Utah and what he was doing p...

Another man has admitted to his part in a scheme to bribe a juror in heavyweight boxer Goran Gogic’s international drug trafficking trial — just don’t ask him to identify his mobbed-up accomplice by name. Valmir Krasniqi, 35, the manager at Positano, a Bay Ridge restaurant prosecutors say has ties to organized crime figures, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in Brooklyn Federal Court Wednesday, and could face up to six years behind bars based on sentencing guidelines. On Wednesday, Krasniqi admitted he gave a photo of one of the Gogic jurors to a worker at the restaurant, and that he set up a meeting in his home. But when Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Dean asked him to clarify who the meeting was with, his lawyer, Mathew Mari, insisted Krasniqi wouldn’t be naming names. “Judge, the defendant is not a cooperating witness,” Mari said. “He’s not saying that from his lips. He’s just not going to do it.” Krasniqi and two other men were arrested in November, accused of plotting ...

The players are trying to fight a good fight, seeking a massive improvement to their unimaginably one-sided collective bargaining agreement. Public sentiment is largely on their side. But with the WNBA holding firm and time running out, it sounds like the players are folding — and that could mean another disappointing deal that’s projected for six more years. The WNBA presented a new CBA proposal to the WNBPA on Sunday, a source with knowledge of the information confirmed to the Daily News on Monday. The biggest takeaways from the proposal are changes that allow accelerated maximum contract eligibility for star players on rookie contracts and an increase in the Year 1 salary cap to $5.75 million. Based on league projections, the cap will grow to roughly $8.5 million by Year 6, according to the source. The league’s cap for the 2025 season was set at $1.5 million. The Associated Press was first on the details of the league’s latest proposal. “I want to play, and players want to pla...

Chet Hanks says he’s stranded in Medellin , Colombia where he spent the weekend trying to resolve a passport issue. The 35-year-old son of Hollywood royals Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson told his 600,000 Instagram followers after celebrating a friend’s birthday in Puerto Rico, he decided to drop in on a friend in Colombia. According to Hanks – a dual-citizen traveling with his Greek passport — airport officials stopped him from re-entering the U.S. when he tried coming home. “They tell me that if I’m using a foreign passport, I need a green card to get back into America,” he says. “I don’t have a green card because I’m an American citizen.” Hanks said the issue could probably be resolved if he went to the U.S. embassy in Bogota, but he wasn’t interested in making that 250-mile trip. He said he left his U.S. passport at home because it’s about to expire, which he worried could be problematic. Rita Wilson and Chet Hanks attend the 68th GRAMMY Awards Pre-GRAMMY Gala. (Amy Sussman/Getty ...

By BEN FINLEY WASHINGTON (AP) — Three American service members have been killed and five others seriously wounded during the U.S. attacks on Iran , the military said Sunday, marking the first American casualties in a major offensive that has sparked retaliation from the Islamic Republic . U.S. Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, announced the deaths in a post on X but did not say when and where they occurred. The statement said “several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions” and were going to return to duty. Central Command described the situation “as fluid” and said it would withhold the identities of the service members who were killed for 24 hours after their families were notified. The U.S. military also denied Iranian claims that the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier was struck with ballistic missiles, saying on X that the “missiles launched didn’t even come close.” President Donald Trump had warned that American troops could be killed or ...

Terance Mann doesn’t always show up the way fans are trained to look for it. Some nights it’s a big shot or a timely stop. Other nights it’s the quiet stuff that never makes a highlight package, the conversations on the bench, the reminder to take care of your body, the nudge to lock in when the role changes again. On a young Nets roster still learning how to be an NBA team every night, that version of Mann might be his most significant contribution. Brooklyn acquired Mann from the Atlanta Hawks in July, and he’s been exactly what the organization needed from a veteran wing on a rebuilding roster. He’s averaged 7.6 points, 3.1 rebounds and 3.2 assists while shooting 46.3% from the field and 36.9% from 3-point range. He’s also fifth on the team in total minutes at 1,263 and fifth in games started with 42 entering Sunday’s matchup against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Barclays Center. Early in the season, as the rookie guards learned the ropes, Mann took on extra ball-handling responsi...